SAN CONNECTIVITY

DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES

Effective and efficient IT infrastructures that can accommodate mission-critical data demands is a key requirement for enterprises.
Avoiding network downtimes and data unavailability caused by disasters quick recovery of all crucial data is mandatory (Disaster Recovery).  Business critical applications require a hot-stand by data center (Business continuity). Connecting those dispersed data centres, a highly reliable, scalable and powerful technology is essential.

KEY APPLICATIONS

• Business Continuity (BC)
  • Open systems server cluster (x86 systems)
  • Mainframe clustering in IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS®) environments
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Synchronous and asynchronous disk mirroring
• Tape backup
• Distributed file systems
  

SOLUTION

The ADVA FSP 3000 provides a simple and cost-effective WDM solution that is designed for the requirements of the enterprise market. Besides offering high-capacity optical transport over metro and regional distances up to 40Gbit/s per channel the FSP 3000 support certified and proven storage connectivity protocols.

FEATURES + BENEFITS

• Lowest cost-per-bit transport
  • 120 channels of 10Gbit/s or 40Gbit/s (up to 3.6Tbit/s) with sub-wavelength aggregation (TDM)
  • Highest single span distance up to 200km+
• Lowest latency transport
• Dedicated Enterprise features
  • All SAN specific protocols
  • All qualifications of market-leading SAN vendors
  • Full set of ‘advanced’ enterprise features (encryption, active link monitoring, fiber fault locator)
  • Integration in market-leading management systems
• High availability supported by a rich set of protection options
• Ease-of-Use